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In answer to the prayers of many a Jeep devotee and amid a 65 percent year-to-year increase in sales, Chrysler's Jeep brand has unofficially confirmed (Now there's a brain teaser for you!) to its dealer network that a Jeep Wrangler-derived pickup model will be coming in the third quarter of 2011. Aftermarket four-wheel-drive experts American Expeditionary Vehicles have been selling such a creature (AEV Brute photos, info here) hand-over-fist for years. It's about time Chrysler got in on the action. If rumors are true, the as-yet-unnamed truck will have a box separate from the body tub, unlike the Jeep Scrambler of the 1970s and '80s, and possibly a diesel powerplant. (Source: JeepNewsNow)

Ford Motor Company's provocative design guru J Mays (That's just 'J,' no period, no name.) is teasing pony car fans with news that an all-new 2014 Mustang will appear in 2013 as more than the aesthetic refresh that greeted buyers in 2010. Mays described the new car's style as "pretty cool," and it's likely Ford will pull out all the stops for the automotive icon's 50th anniversary. (Sources: GM Inside News, The Mustang Source)